Arab Printing Press to use Mcor IRIS
DUNLEER, Ireland, July 2, 2014 – Mcor Technologies Ltd, manufacturer of the only line of desktop paper-based 3D printers in the world, and winner of the 2013 Brand of the Year Award, announced today that it has added More than Printing (MTP) as its authorized reseller in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Ivory Coast. MTP joins Mcor’s rapidly-growing list of reselling partners worldwide. Furthermore, Arab Printing Press (APP) has selected Mcor IRIS as its color 3D Printer.
MTP will sell and support Mcor’s IRIS and Matrix line of 3D printers in the Middle East and Ivory Coast across all vertical market segments. The company is committed to promoting and distributing state-of-the-art technologies and solutions that open a range of unprecedented possibilities for entrepreneurs, established organizations, as well as individuals, to create new ground breaking products and services with the shortest possible lead time and at affordable costs.
“We are excited to team-up with a proven industry leader and award-winning brand such as Mcor,” said MTP GM, Mrs. Caroline Zouein. “Mcor’s unique line of quality and low-cost color 3D printers will help forward-looking companies, such as Arab Printing Press (APP), strive ahead by providing customers with the unique new capabilities of designing and prototyping innovative products that were just impossible before. Mcor’s 3D printing technology represents an opportunity that many designers, entrepreneurs, manufacturers and educators will embrace the minute they know that it is available to them locally, at an affordable price and in the eco-way.”
APP has over 45 years of experience in the offset printing industry. It is located in the heart of Beirut’s Industrial City and employs over 100 people in the areas of pre-press, printing and folding and binding. APP produces magazines and text-books for the Arab World, Africa, and European countries. They also produce brochures, labels, corporate shares, stamps and annual reports in high volumes. APP will provide a print bureau service by adding to their current printing offerings full-color 3D scanning and printing, with the latest technology available on the market.
“After evaluating many 3D printers, we have selected the Mcor IRIS due to the fact that it is a full color 3D printer that prints on paper, and paper is our business since 1968…” said Mr. Elie Raphael, chairman and GM at APP. “We are very pleased with the color quality of the IRIS machine, its precision in printing the objects and of course the fact that it is a green technology, it fits perfectly with our ISO 14001 EMS.”
“We welcome MTP to our growing family of resellers and APP as a new customer,” said Dr. Conor MacCormack, co-founder and CEO of Mcor Technologies. “MTP’s and APP’s respective experience in the distribution and printing industry is a good fit for Mcor and will create new business solutions for professional customers and profitable new business opportunities for our companies.”
MTP joins a growing number of companies who are taking advantage of Mcor’s partner program. Mcor has seen phenomenal growth in their channel; “the number of partners increased by 227% in the past year; as a result, sales growth is about 308% for the same period,” added MacCormack. Mcor continues to seek channel partners worldwide and has very aggressive growth plans for 2014.
About Mcor Technologies Ltd
Mcor Technologies Ltd is an innovative manufacturer of the world’s most affordable, full-color and eco-friendly 3D printers. They are the only 3D printers to use ordinary business A4 and letter paper as the build material, a choice that renders durable, stable and tactile models. Established in 2004 with a talented team of specialists in the area of 3D printing, software and CAD/CAM, Mcor’s vision is to make 3D printing more accessible to everyone. The company operates internationally from offices in Ireland, the UK and America.
For more information, please visit www.mcortechnologies.com.
